'Because the boundary between work and life tends to be fuzzy anyway, it's easy to bring home some envelopes, a few stamps, and a ream of paper in case a ministry-related letter needs to go out quickly.'

'This necessitated that each campaigner maintain a ream of petitions, a separate sheet for each locality in the area.'

'They're going to be holding reams of paper with every word I've ever written here printed out on them and they are going to accuse me of being a traitor and a terrorist.'

'For months I worked nonstop grinding out the detailed specification for the system - a monumental ream of paper going into incredible detail covering a gigantic object model and programming environment.'

'His desk, by contrast, had very few papers on it and some intuition told me that the slim ream of papers gathered orderly into a coherent pile meant something.'

'The case contains reams of papers, including cuttings from England, Norway, Finland and Germany dating from 1936 to 1975.'

'English historians, for instance, have used the reams of paper generated by the courts that dealt with serious crimes.'

'At first we were recycling reams and reams of paper but that has gone down as we are using less and using both sides.'

verb

Froth or overflow.

'It was washed down with a draught of Yule-ale that reamed briskly in a corner of the kitchen.'